For Travelers

• Browsing ALL SCENES or another one of the scene menus, you may find someplace intriguing to visit on your next ramble!   For a geographic index of reference locations by state/province, see below on this page.
• The full scene description reached by clicking any photo or title on a menu will introduce a type of landscape feature that can be found in many similar landscape regions around the world.  Making a goal to sometime visit a cirque, a braided stream, a tor, or a place with glacial grooves can lead to new online search strategies in planning your travel routes.
• The Reference Location section at the end of each scene description provides a locator map and other access information for the specific place that is shown in the photos and is source for some of the description's Key Details.  While a few of these locations are difficult to access, many are in state or national parks, or in commercial tourist sites, where support of public visitation is an explicit goal.
• When we visit a striking landscape scene, we look for reasons to spend extended time there - a couple of hours rather than twenty minutes, or even allow for a second visit at a different time of day.  It's a chance to absorb the scene more fully; to spend reflection time in a place where we can more fully feel the pulse of the earth.  Aside from a rest time from walking or pause for a picnic, there can also be some explicitly creative ways to linger in a scene: making detailed observations (what has become some of our source material for this website) or by spinning a tale set there, with your companions.
  

An Aid to Trip Planning:
Reference Locations, Listed by State/Province

(Australia)
Victoria
                Sea Stacks - Twelve Apostles area, Great Ocean Road
 
(Canada)
New Brunswick
                Pothole Gorge - Grand Falls
Nova Scotia
                Tidal Marsh - St. Croix River estuary near Windsor
Prince Edward Island
                Beach Spring - Brackley Beach, PEI National Park
              Blowout - Greenwich, PEI National Park

​(United States)
Alaska
                Braided Stream - Denali National Park
                Valley Glacier Surface - Columbia Glacier
Colorado
              Alpine Valley - Rocky Mountain National Park
                Cirque - Rocky Mountain National Park
                Giant Dunes - Great Sand Dunes National Park
                Highland Tundra - Rocky Mountain National Park
                Hogback - Rocky Mountain foothills near Longmont
Illinois
                Rock Shelter - Starved Rock State Park
Indiana
                Creek Ravines - Shades State Park
                Stalactite Curtain - Marengo Cave
Missouri
                Woodland Tor - Elephant Rocks State Park
New Mexico
                Boulder Canyon - Dark Canyon (Eddy Co.)
              Collapsed Lava Tube - El Malpais National Monument
                Decorated High Gallery - Carlsbad Caverns National Park
                Desert Streambed Throughway - Guadalupe Mountains
                Hoodoo Badlands - Bisti Badlands Wilderness
                Oasis - Sitting Bull Falls Recreation Area, Lincoln National Forest
North Dakota
                Prairie Badlands - Theodore Roosevelt National Park (South Unit)
Ohio
                Crystal Chamber - Crystal Cave, South Bass Island (Lake Erie)
                Flatrock Point - Marblehead Lighthouse State Park
              Giant Grooves - Glacial Grooves State Memorial, Kelleys Island (Lake Erie)
Puerto Rico
                Desert Shore - Guanica Dry Forest Reserve
                Mangrove Cays - Playa La Parguera
Utah
                Red Wall Canyon - Arches National Park
Wisconsin
                Talus - Devil's Lake State Park
Wyoming
                Geyser Basin - Norris Basin, Yellowstone National Park
              Pandemonium Bluff - State Hwy 120, near Thermopolis
                Thermal Pools - West Thumb thermal area, Yellowstone National Park